(n.) A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
(n.) A small wooden vessel or cask of indeterminate size, -- used for butter, lard, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) The butter was packed in hardwood casks called firkins and brought by horsedrawn cart from Kerry and West Cork which are still known today as butter roads.
Girkin
Definition:
(n.) See Gherkin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Igor Girkin, the military commander of Slavyansk, told the Russian agency Life News that he had arrived in Donetsk.
(2) Without that, Girkin said, Russia would not have defeated Napoleon and marched on Paris, and for the same reason the fighters had left Slavyansk to regroup and eventually drive Kiev's armies from the east before marching on the capital itself.
(3) The separatist leader Pavel Gubarev read out a message from Girkin to the crowds in Donetsk, in which the commander compared the flight from Slavyansk to the decision by the Russian army to abandon Moscow in 1812.
(4) Girkin has been one of the most intriguing characters of the uprising.
(5) Here’s a rundown who’s in and who’s out in the self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk: Out: Igor Girkin, aka Strelkov (‘the shooter’) The former defense minister of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), Igor Girkin, who is widely known by his nom-de-guerre, Strelkov , has been romanticised by pro-Russian rebels and called a war criminal by Kiev.
(6) A screengrab from a VKontakte page attributed to Igor Girkin, known as Strelkov among east Ukrainian rebels.
(7) 5.14pm BST A website apparently run by rebels has published a post (Russian), purportedly from rebel commander Igor Girkin, which takes credit for shooting down a Ukrainian fighter jet and says the "the pilot ejected.
(8) "We will continue the combat operations and will try not to make the same mistakes that we made in the past," said Girkin, a Russian also known by his nom de guerre, Igor Strelkov.
(9) The page, on the VKontakte social network, is attributed to Igor Girkin, who goes by the nom de guerre Strelkov and is the self-proclaimed military commander of the rebels.
(10) He is one of a number of key commanders of the rebel movement who Kiev claims are Russian agents , including the mysterious figure of Igor Girkin, nicknamed Strelkov or “the Shooter”, the commander-in-chief of the Donetsk resistance.